Raikkonen hopeful of fighting back

The Ferrari driver will start the Turkish Grand Prix from third place after making a costly error during his final flying lap.

"The first two qualifyings were good, but in the last one I had a mistake in Turn 9," said Raikkonen, 20 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton, who starts right ahead of him.

"In the last lap I made a mistake in the last corner, but we have a good race pace so hopefully we can fight back," the Finn added.

Raikkonen was left lamenting his error in the slow Turn 9, but he still feels he has a good car for the car.

"They (corners) are slow but you lose much more time in the slow corners than in the fast corner," he said.

"They are important corners and tricky to get right, you easily destroy the laptime. We are still in a good position for tomorrow and see what we can do in the race."